Preface

    Introduction  

1. The Systematic Destruction of the Irish Race

2. Religion Amongst Warfare

3. The Nine Years’ War and the Ulster Plantations

4. Cromwell

5. Peace Justice and Slavery

6. Amelioration or Coercion?

7. The Norman Invasion

8. The Williamite Wars

9. The Penal Laws

10. The Origin and Purpose of the Penal Laws

11. The Suppression of Irish Trade

12. Anglo-Norman Irish in the Struggle for Irish Freedom

13. Theobald Wolfe Tone — 1798 Rising

14. Robert Emmet

15. The Irish Exiles

16. Women in (ancient) Ireland

17. Learning Through the Ages

18. Literature Poetry and Music

19. The Brehon Laws

20. Irish Hospitality

21. The Literature of Anglo-Ireland

22. Attempts at Peaceful Conciliation — O’Connell

23. Repeal of the Union and the ‘Monster Meetings’

24. O’Connell’s Demise

25. The Famine

26. Emigration

27. The Young Irelanders

28. The Rising of 1916 — The Beginning of the End of British Rule

29. The Final War! The End of British Rule in Southern Ireland

30. Southern Ireland’s Neutrality during the Second World War

31. The IRA

32. Hunger Striking, Stripsearching and ‘Supergrasses’

33. The Orange Order — Division and Discrimination

34. Northern Ireland — The Conflict and the Peace Movements

35. The Final Conflict

36 Conclusion  

   What's Happening in 2001?

   Important Dates

   Important Terms

    English Monarchs

   The Irish Flag

    Proclamation of the Irish Republic issued on 24 April 1916

   Australia